Vulnerability in Mantisbt

CVE-2014-9388

bug_report.php in MantisBT before 1.2.18 allows remote attackers to assign arbitrary issues via the handler_id parameter.

Published 2014-12-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (79.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 79.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mantisbt

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-284 — Improper Access Control

References

seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/955 (mailing-list)
www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php (Vendor Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/62101 (third-party-advisory)
www.mantisbt.org/bugs/changelog_page.php (Vendor Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3120 (vendor-advisory)